(Quebec) MP and aspiring solidarity spokesperson, Christine Labrie, comes to the defense of her former colleague Catherine Dorion in a long message on Facebook.
“What I feel the strongest is a mixture of sadness and guilt, for not having seen the extent of Catherine’s distress,” she wrote.
“Like many other of my colleagues, I had underestimated his suffering, and after reading the story of his time in the solidarity caucus, I feel guilty,” adds Mme Labrie.
The former Solidaire MP for Taschereau has just published a “punching” book in which she sharply criticizes the parliamentary leader of Québec Solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau Dubois, the work of a deputy in the National Assembly and journalists.
In her message, Christine Labrie also criticizes the work of the media. She says that during a press conference on the Laurent Commission and autistic children, a journalist instead asked whether Catherine’s outing in support of the Maipoils movement harmed the party’s credibility.
“It was Manon who answered. Maybe it’s better that way, because I would have wanted to tell him that by asking this question, it was he who was harming his own credibility as a journalist. Clearly, at that moment, he preferred to feed the click machine than to address the way we take care of vulnerable children in Quebec,” she relates.
“However, the idea that Catherine was responsible for the lack of interest in our political work never crossed my mind. It is journalists and columnists who are responsible for the subjects they choose to discuss or silence. […] We do not have the slightest control over the subjects that will cover the newspapers or go completely silent, and Catherine’s departure has not changed the fact that the vast majority of our work still goes unnoticed,” continues the supportive MP. from Sherbrooke.
Christine Labrie admits that she does not have the same vision as her former colleague of the work of a parliamentarian.
Its vision of representation is to offer a show committed to creating emotion and generating a social movement. Mine is to relay citizen concerns to influence decisions and generate changes that improve life in the world. Both are absolutely essential and feed off each other.
Christine Labrie on Catherine Dorion
Last week, Gabriel Nadeau Dubois also responded to Catherine Dorion on Facebook by saying that the story she gave of her time in politics was “upsetting” and admitting that their relationship had not been easy.